Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"It excited him too, that for her this was not just an evening but a crisis."
Nick Carraway
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"Behind every great man stands a woman rolling her eyes."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Marriage is a sad comedy played out in a silent house."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She mistook flattery for love and paid dearly for the error."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love is not two souls becoming one; it is two prisons merging."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Raskolnikov
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"I want to know what you are thinking about now."
Sonya
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"Relationships are forged in the fires of adversity."
Monte Cristo
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"Why had she not a husband who understood her?"
Emma Bovary
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"Marriage had proved to be a disappointment."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I wanted to love humanity, but it has turned out that I cannot love my neighbor"
Ivan Karamazov
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"
Ivan Karamazov
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"I want to know what you think of me practically at first sight."
Jordan Baker
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"That's why I want you. Besides, that's not a question of fact. Obviously you loved me."
Jay Gatsby
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"How strange it is that we can hate and love the same person!"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Hearts break silently, often unnoticed."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract."
Ivan Karamazov
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"If you love someone, you wouldn't hurt them like this."
Cosette
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Raskolnikov
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"All women are like that. They mistake a moment of weakness for eternity"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Desire is a fire that consumes everything it touches"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had married not a man, but a disappointment"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Passion speaks louder than virtue, especially in the heart of a woman"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She sought in adultery what marriage could not give her"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Every affair begins with hope and ends in ash"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was destroyed not by her lovers, but by her own expectations"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The world is not made for us to enjoy in isolation."
Edmond Dantès
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"
Ivan Karamazov